The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

tor to end the next line OF the couplet WIN
yesterday" but he of Arkansas goes calmly
and correctly ON with,
No longer than jist yistiddy.
So, also, the poet daown in Yarmouth can
rhyme Gloss" with "horse" and "calf" with
through" Moreover, any poet in the republic
outside of Pennsylvania, inditing an ode to
well known railway in that state, would make
"readingn rhyme with "bleeding," but the
peonle who live on the line Of the road would
use "bedding." They do, too; the old fash
io,ed Pennsylvania Dutch kind, one feather
bed to sleep on, and three to cover WITH You
seq the poet. dear Williams, rhymes by ear
and not by sight.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
"Alas,n mournfully exclaims Boston
CLERGYMAN, "the old fashioned way OF max
inc love has passed away with our fathers. "
In behalf of the young people of this genera
tion we return thanks for this blessing. The
old fashioned way of making love, as we
understand it, must have been dreary ai1alr'
A man began, if we catch the rat, oy making
love to his father-in-law, whom he hated' anu
his mother-in-law, whom he greatly leareo,
He called his sweetheart Respected miss, ana
once in while got chance to touch hei
finger tips icily in dance as he teetereu past
her like stork on stills, for in such manner
of iointless grace and frosty merriment'
children, did your grandsires dance pro
nounced tiawnce). And for all this-what
Horace Greeley would call "Arctic circle OF
frigidity"-my son, your grandfather loved
vonr rranlmother-soft and fragrant be tile
1od fashioned roses" that bloom above her
no better. wot, than you do the girl you
| feed ON indigestible caramels and corn starct
| ice cream, while you fill her ears with the
most idiotic chatter that ever drove sensible
man mad. Out! Out with you'll Out OF my
SIGHT and hearing! By Venus glove, II eve
again I hear YOU talk to girl as overhear'
Won talk to Kitty last night, I'll brain yol
with something soft, if / knew where to hi
Won. After all, may it not be that our father
were not such half baked fools as their sons
will read over q few OF my own Old lov
letters and see.
COMMENCEMENT IS OVER.
The country, and incidentally the univers'
Is safe for another year. We have been
great peril, but our danger has been poinue
out, and not only so, but the way TO saieV
has at the same time been so clearly Indicate
tLat the wayfaring man, though Mus
wnr,p. need not err therein. An abyss G
f,ichtful depth has lowered above us, ovel
sladowing all this fair land with the dead
b,obt of its malarial breath in accents tina
Chilled the heart with the Upas like touch G
It's basilisk glance, that echoed from sea I
shore. But you have saved us, my boy; yo
aud vour fellows have snatched us from til
living grave, whose hungry breakers dashe
tber binding spray and wreathed thel
angry flames in lurid tongues about our fee
Won IL il who in this month of leafy Jun
have told us of '"phe Peris of the Republic
UTbe Labor Probem;" "The Duty of I'll
Hour" "Thc Decay Of Patriotism;" "Wor
and Wages" "Tho Deterioration OF Mai
bood.u "The Labor Question:" "The Declir
of craftsmanship" "'rhe Labor Agitation
aThe Weakness Of a Republican Form
Governments" @Labor and Capital" "Tl
, Downfall of Liberty;r "The Labor Problem
! its Evils and their Remedy" corruption
Politics." "The Labor Problem and its Da
, pcrs:n care we Free Peoples" "Ihe Lab
, Problem q National Menace" Inc per-
that beset our path you have shown us; o
, YOU have also guided us into paths Oh salet
You have told us of "The Only Way to 90
Governments" "The Safety of the Republic
aThe True Mission of the Labor Reformer
: 1Reforrns in the Ba.lot;" "The Coming Man
a aThe True Reformer;" "Tho Hope Of o
! Country" "The Conservation OF Popul
= Government" Labor Reform;" "Tho "
look of the Hour" Labor Agitation BE
. ipg:n "Our Legacy for Our Children" "Wh
: we Owe to Postelity;;" and your sisters ha
nobly rushed to tho rescue with assuran'
. that "Night brings out the Stars;" and mo
:, over that "Man is the Arbiter of His O'
y Destiny" "Woman's Sphere" "The Inf
ence Of Woman" SWomans Duty;" "N
II man, the Hope of the World;" and "Sprlnt
4 Heaven bless you, my children; you Ina
= saved us; Heaven bless you! Come aga
n next commencement.
{. A EFT OF SCIENCE.
d The male wasp, the naturalist tells us,ne'
% stings. But SO long as he and his sister
n twins and dress exactly alike this bit
rs knowledge availeth nothing to tho carel
'r man who does not know it is the lady whit
n approaching him, until irbe that she smit
r. him with her hustle. What humanity
ii mands of science in the case Of the wasp
the invention Of some prompter method
a distinguishing between Monsieur and MAZDA
'f wazzle at forty yards.
N THE LITTLE ONE.
NO The little tot'ring baby feet,
% With faltering steps and slow,
10 With pattering echoes soft and sweet
u Into my heart they go;
N They al 0 go, in grimy plays,